Le 28/06/2012 00:48, Igor Stasenko a écrit :
Seeing another thread about "is XYZ plugin there or not" or "what may cause prim fail" i REALLY suggest that we should stop and think.. This plugin's usage logic is inherently flawed.. (or i would say outdated)
What i would like to see one day is when i installing new code into image, it pops up a message: "Your VM missing an XYZ plugin for running this cool code, would you like to download and install it? Yes No "
In case of Pharo, we should really start thinking about delivering quality grade solutions, not something which might work if you properly jump 2 times and whistle 7 times while faced North"...
Look at what the practices which become common today in modern browsers, and OSes - they updating themselves without a notice and just asking you to restart it time to time. Why we cannot do the same?
What about using something existing, user-level (for Unix/linux and OSX guys) such as 0install ? I'm using it for part of my desktop and it does the update/search dependencies/compile if needed. I don't think making Pharo plugins and VM available in the 0install system would be hard. http://0install.net/ (and it would work in allmost as many platform as Pharo does). It would only require some space to host the feeds and the files. Thierry -- Thierry Goubier CEA list Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95